Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 10

Oh, how beautiful it must be, he thought, to go on voyages of discovery, or to find out how to imitate the wings of birds and then to be able to fly!

Who acts: tale, elder · What happens: be, think, go, find out, imitate, fly · To what, where: voyages, wings, discovery · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tale, elder), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 beautiful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 beautiful	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 beautiful	advmod
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 be	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 be	aux
7	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 beautiful	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beautiful	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	ccomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 voyages	case
15	voyages	voyage	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 go	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 discovery	case
17	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 voyages	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 find	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 find	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 find	mark
21	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 go	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 find	compound:prt
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 imitate	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 imitate	mark
25	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 find	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wings	det
27	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 imitate	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 birds	case
29	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 wings	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 able	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 able	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	34 able	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	cop
34	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 imitate	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 fly	mark
36	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	xcomp
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	must	tale					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	elder					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	go	to-infinitive			voyages of discovery			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on voyage=Location
4	find out	to-infinitive						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	imitate	to-infinitive		the wings of birds				vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive				then	able property	tree rules
7	fly	to-infinitive						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	voyage			discovery				nom voyage «act transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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